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On Sun, 26 May 1996 17:35:33 GMT, hlamuth@infinet.com (Henry LaMuth)
wrote:

>dgerber@compusmart.ab.ca (zymurgy) wrote:
>
>>My drivers setup wonderfully in Win 95, but when I go to run certain some 
>>programs in DOS, I'm having problems.  I am playing with my dosstart.bat file 
>>in C:\WINDOWS directory, but somethings work and others don't.  Do I follow 
>>the example of my autoexec.bat or config.sys when creating the dosstart.bat. 
>> Any other useful ideas would be appreciated.  Exactly what I'm looking for 
>>is my Video, Sound and CD Drivers to load as in Win95 with minimal grief.
>
>>HELP
>
>I set up a boot disk with an autoexec and config.sys set up purely for
>a dos session. Works like a charm. I have all sorts of problems trying
>the run dos games from win95, though non-games do very well. It is
>multimedia that just doesn't work from win95 for dos apps.
>
>Now, I am trying something else I read about in Windows magazine, p44
>in the June issue. I should be able to set up a custom config and
>autoexec for any dos application. They gave a step by step approach
>that was easy to follow----but I cannot get the new pif file with the
>pointers to the custom autoexec and config files to be recognized. I
>am trying to get this one resolved. If I can, it would do away with
>the the boot disk. Any thoughts by someone out there? I will post the
>steps for doing it if anyone has a recommendation on how this proceed.

If you create a folder for your DOS Games, and then put shortcuts to
each game in the folder, they will appear on the program menu as
selectable programs just like all your WIndows programs.

Then reboot, and Win 95 will automatically setup each program for the
config it needs.  You do not need a config or autoexec file in the
root directory.  Win 95 works fine without them.  As a matter of fact,
DOS games that I couldn't play because I was out of memory in DOS
mode, play fine when I launch them from the desktop.

Win 95 will manage your DOS resources just fine if you'll let it.  If
you should happen to have a program that won't launch at all, try
reinstalling it.

If you want to modify the settings of an individual program, do the
following:  Double click on My Computer.  Double click on the drive
the game you're having trouble with is located on.  Find the folder
for that game and double click on it.  This will open up the folder.
Then right click on the program icon, or any shortcut icons you have
in that folder.

Choose properties from the drop down menu and click on it.  This will
open up a menu box  labeled "(Name of the game) Properties".  In this
folder you can change any number of game attributes, including the
icons, the amount of memory needed for the game, the size of the
screen to play on, and several more.  You can play with those settings
until you get proper operation from the game.

You will probably never get as much memory from DOS mode as you will
if you allow WIndows 95 to manage the settings for you from the
desktop.  You can even create custom config and autoexec settings,
<for that game only>, under the Advanced Program Settings if you need
to.  But you should rarely need to.

Keep in mind that until you shut down and restart, Win 95 cannot
adjust the settings for your games.  And if a game still won't start,
try deleting the folder and reinstalling the game, before you mess
with configs and autoexecs for it.  It's much easier.  Windows will do
all the work for you.

I've gotten as much as 625K free memory for a game, simply by letting
Windows set it up, and I couldn't even launch it in DOS mode.  I got
an error message every time saying, Not enough memory.



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